iOS App Crashes on navigation to previous screen

[dakota-kallas]

Current behavior

App crashes when navigating back to a screen in the bottom tabs when the bottom tabs is also inside of a stack navigation container. For example, if I have 2 screens, with the initial being screen 1, if I navigate to screen 2 everything is fine, but as soon as I navigate back to screen 1 using the bottom tabs, the app will crash. This error happens with any combination of screens or any number of screens. All of this while being contained inside of a stack navigation.

I am using expo & react native for this. This only started happening once I updated to using the newly released expo SDK 51 from SDK 50. I am unsure if that is related. This issue is specific to iOS, as it appears to work fine on Android.

Expected behavior

I would expect to be able to navigate between screens in the bottom tabs without the app crashing after I navigate to a screen that was already navigated to previously.

Reproduction

https://github.com/dakota-kallas/Expense-Tracker

Platform

• Android
• iOS
• Web
• Windows
• MacOS

Packages

• @react-navigation/bottom-tabs
• @react-navigation/drawer
• @react-navigation/material-top-tabs
• @react-navigation/stack
• @react-navigation/native-stack
• react-native-tab-view

Environment

• I've removed the packages that I don't use

package	version
@react-navigation/native	6.1.17
@react-navigation/bottom-tabs	6.5.20
@react-navigation/native-stack	6.9.26
react-native-safe-area-context	4.10.1
react-native-screens	3.31.1
react-native	0.74.1
expo	51.0.5
node	18.16.1
npm	9.8.0

[dakota-kallas]

Reinstalling the expo app fixed the issue

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